The sole end of logic is to explain the principles and operations of our reasoning faculty, and the nature of our ideas: morals and criticism regard our tastes and sentiments: and politics consider men as united in society, and dependent on each other.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But every subject in a Common-wealth, hath covenanted to obey the Civill Law, (either one with another, as when they assemble to make a common Representative, or with the Representative it selfe one by one, when subdued by the Sword they promise obedience, that they may receive life;)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

"Men must act; consequently rules of conduct are necessary"—this is what even the ancient Sceptics thought.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The first question the abbe asked me was whether I thought myself capable of paying a visit to eight or ten men-of-war in the roads at Dunkirk, of making the acquaintance of the officers, and of completing a minute and circumstantial report on the victualling, the number of seamen, the guns, ammunition, discipline, etc., etc.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

233 , 282 ), are to be regarded as being merely anthropomorphically coloured reflections of the social life or environment of the particular ethnic group who hold the particular fairy-faith; and, as Mr. Lang here suggests, when they are stripped of these superficial characteristics, which are due to such social psychology, they become ghosts of the dead or other spiritual beings.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Note 2 ( return ) [ See the criticisms on the Ancient Mariner, in the Monthly and Critical Reviews of the first volume of the Lyrical Ballads.]
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yet so serious was the disturbance that the highest military and civil representatives of the American Government in the archipelago deemed it necessary to meet in the island which was the scene of the trouble with a view of handling it.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Now, how many times does the upper wheel turn on its own axis in making a complete revolution of the other wheel?
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

All that we know of the life of man is merely a certain relation of free will to inevitability, that is, of consciousness to the laws of reason.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I beg you will remember me as Captain Rover, of the Falcon .
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

In fact, at the moment a clear ring of a pistol-shot was heard; and, ere any one could speak, in quick succession another echoed through the woods.
— from The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2 by Johannes Scotus

Sarah,(9) who was staying with her aunt, Mrs. Young, expected Page 18 me, and came running out before the chaise stopped at the door, and Mr. Young following, with both hands full of French newspapers.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

A person, whose name prudence forbids me mentioning, communicated to me the following letter, the original copy of which is in my possession: MONSIEUR LE DUC DE BASSANO—I send you some very important documents respecting the Sieur Bourrienne, and beg you will make me a confidential report on this affair.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

But they have made a complete rout of your horse, and left but few of them to carry back the story to the camp.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

So hundreds of them sent in, after the day of the alleged drawing, from thirty to fifty dollars apiece, according to the number of tickets they held, and received by return mail a "certified report" of the drawing, by which they discovered that the tickets they held were all blanks, each, perhaps, thinking that somebody else had drawn the "mammoth prizes."
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters

The calm, manly, and cogent reply of his opponent occupied far less time, but obtained far more favor with the sitting magistrates; who, after a short consultation among themselves, unanimously decided to hear the proposed evidence, and thereupon ordered the sheriff to conduct the witness at once into court.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

Some, like Bonnet, held that the germ was a minute and complete replica of its parent, which simply unfolded and enlarged like a bud to produce a similar organism.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton